One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list to dictionary for instance) I have ended up using OfType<…> on a dictionary which …
Resharper – Using custom patterns to catch subtle bugs with OfType<T> Read More »
Kevin Montrose’s Jil JSON serializer has now been added to the JSON benchmark tests and the results are really impressive. Kevin has also listed the tricks that he has employed to make Jil fast on the project page, which is well worth a read.
If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, custom metrics that you publish about your service. On top of that, you …
Introducing, DSLs to query against Amazon CloudWatch metrics Read More »
I recently reorganized the SimpleSpeedTester project’s structure so that it’s easier to add tests to both the Json and binary serializer benchmarks, and to run the tests is as easy as running the RunBenchmarks.fsx F# script and then choosing which benchmark you’d like to run and then kick back and wait for the results to …
Some time ago I put together a small BERT serializer and BERT-RPC client for .Net called Filbert (which is another name for Hazelnut, that has the word bert and the letter F and at the time every F# library has a leading F in its name!). As an experimental project admittedly I hadn’t given too …
Filbert v0.2.0 – performance improvement on decoding Read More »
Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data. As an experiment I have put together a simple, actor-based customer appender for log4net which allows you to publish your log messages into a configured Kinesis stream. …
Introducing log4net.Kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis Read More »
I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forget to add it to your PATH) create a new console application in Visual Studio …
Echo websocket server using websocketd – as if by magic! Read More »
Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget …
I work with Amazon S3, and indeed many of the Amazon’s cloud services, and one of the things that is often frustrating in my day-to-day workflow is the need to keep jumping out of the IDE, find the files I’m looking for in a S3 explorer, grab the key to the file and then go …
I have just published version 0.3.0 of stream_ext, my attempt to port the Rx APIs to Dart. In this version I have added a number of additional methods to the existing set of: average buffer combineLatest concat delay max merge min repeat sample scan startWith sum throttle window zip amb StreamExt.amb has the following …
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